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Greysteel (Gresteel)
Grey strip (of land)
Greysteel lies within the Faughanvale parish in Tirkeeran barony, a landscape shaped by medieval monasticism and plantation settlement. The earliest documented ecclesiastical presence dates to the 6th century, when St Canice established a small monastic settlement in the townland of Faughanvale itself, three miles distant. This early Christian foundation anchored the spiritual and administrativ...
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